--- The American Association of Counseling and Development, which represents over
50,000 counselors in the United States, formally endorsed the Seville Statement at
their March convention in Boston. The endorsement was headline news in the enclosed
convention newspaper. For the counselors, many of whom are working at schools and
colleges, the Seville Statement can be used as a tool to "sweep away old myths" and
make possible personal development within the context of creating a new world culture
of peace. The endorsement came as the result of a year-long initiative by Judith
Kovacs-Long of Texas (see the article by her and Elizabeth Brumage in the November,
1988 newsletter). Along the way the Statement was supported and published by various
divisions of AACD, including the Association for Humanistic Education and Development,
the Iowa AACD, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, the American
College Personnel Association, and the American Mental Health Counselors. Other recent
organizational endorsements include the Movimiento por la Vida y la Paz in Argentina
(Movement for Life and Peace) and the Research/Study Team on Non-Violent Large Systems
Change of the Organization Development Institute with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.

--- The new book, Aggression and War, edited by Seville signatories do Groebel and
Robert Hinde, features the Seville Statement along with scientific essays that support
its five theses. The book, which has been in preparation for several years (see the
February 1988 newsletter), is now available from Cambridge University Press, as per
the enclosed flyer. The Seville Statement is also featured in the upcoming issue of
the Journal of Peace Research where it is accompanied by a lead article that I have
written, entitled, The Seville Statement on Violence: A Progress Report. Another
book is underway that will trace the history of the Seville Statement. Its author,
Jeffrey Goldstein, has received a grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
to carry out the work. He requests that anyone with relevant materials contact him
at Temple University Psychology Dept, Philadelphia, PA, 19122. Another recent publication 
of the Seville Statement was in the Ethical Record (UK) , October 1988 issue.

--- Recent mass media attention include two articles on the Seville Statement sub-
mitted by Santiago Genoves in Mexico. One is in the leading newspaper Excelsior
(October 20, 1988), and the other in ICVT - Informacion, Cientific y Tecnologia
IO (137): 8-9, 1988. In West Germany, the Nurnberger Zeitung of December 24, 1988
carried a major story entitled "Man Is Not by Nature Warlike and Violent", featuring
quotes from Jo Groebel and a synopsis of the Seville Statement. In Australia, the
Statement was used as the basis for the weekly radio program of Keith Suter, Foun-
dation Director of the Trinity Peace Research Institute. Copies of the tape, as well
as the articles mentioned above are available from me.

--- Lack of space makes it impossible to mention all the wonderful letters from
people who are using the Seville Statement in their peace-making work. Riitta
Wahlstrdm has not only used it in peace education in her native Finland, but also
on a lecture tour in Spain and in her work with the International Peace Research
Association. Dimitra Papadopoulou has carried its message beyond her Laboratory
of Education for Peace in Greece, to the borders of Turkey, to Bulgaria, and now
to Paris, UNESCO, where she is working for two months. Robert Holt is using the
Statement at the New York University Program on Peace and Global Policy Studies,
and at his suggestion it will be distributed widely by the Laucks Foundation, Inc
Perhaps the most remarkable letter came from Enoch Chitsike with the return address
Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Zimbabwe where he's in a course on Problems of Humanity.

--- I've applied for funding of the newsletter to the new joint US-Soviet peace
foundation, the International Foundation for Survival and Development of Humanity.
In the meantime, lacking other support, I must depend upon your donations to support
the printing and mailing. Please make out checks to "Seville Statement on Violence."

Peace,

David Adams
Corresponding Secretary